![]() ![]() La Fortuna è cieca ma la Sfiga ci vede benissimoĬhase could smell the excitement and feel the rush of a crime scene. For information, email Against the Police Any resemblance to actual events, places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. ![]() Names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination. You don’t need to have read the whole flash fiction collection to enjoy this volume. The Chase Williams detective short stories books feature one-shot stories that can be read separately. **You haven’t read Vol.1 and Vol.2 yet? Don’t worry.** These ten short detective stories are a genuine window to contemporary Italy, where it doesn’t matter what happens, the important thing is not to be caught. The winning formula doesn’t change as each story is 1000 words in length and each of them adds another dark piece in the (apparently) quiet Tursenia puzzle.Ĭentral Italy has not only nice food, Etruscan town walls and breath-taking art: crimes and mysteries happen in the background among the maze of alleys of the historical city centre.Ĭrime is harder to nail when the culprit could be anyone, from the least suspicious town-dweller to your old grumpy neighbour. The third book of the Chase Williams flash fiction series features more short detective stories with mystery and suspense included. Your daily amount of mystery and suspense, 1000 words length. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I thought for sure I would love Book of Night, one of my most anticipated reads of the year, from the author who wrote one of my favorite YA fantasy series of all time. Holly Black makes her adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies. Determined to survive, Charlie throws herself into a maelstrom of secrets and murder, setting her against a cast of doppelgängers, mercurial billionaires, shadow thieves, and her own sister-all desperate to control the magic of the shadows. But when a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie’s present life is thrown into chaos, and her future seems at best, unclear-and at worst, non-existent. She gets by doing odd jobs for her patrons and the naive new money in her town at the edge of the Berkshires. And sometimes, it has a life of its own.Ĭharlie is a low-level con artist, working as a bartender while trying to distance herself from the powerful and dangerous underground world of shadow trading. ![]() Your shadow holds all the parts of you that you want to keep hidden-a second self, standing just to your left, walking behind you into lit rooms. ![]() You can alter someone’s feelings-and memories-but manipulating shadows has a cost, with the potential to take hours or days from your life. ![]() In Charlie Hall’s world, shadows can be altered, for entertainment and cosmetic preferences-but also to increase power and influence. ![]() ![]() ![]() Press reaction to The Journalist and the Murderer was, almost unanimously, one of nonplussed rage. MacDonald felt betrayed and sued McGinniss for breach of contract, although a hung jury acquitted him. The American journalist Joe McGinniss interviewed MacDonald many times during the course of the case, frequently assuring MacDonald of his friendship and belief in his innocence.īut when McGinniss’s bestselling book, Fatal Vision, appeared in 1983, it portrayed MacDonald as a cold-blooded murderer. Jeffrey MacDonald, a handsome US Army doctor, had been found guilty of murdering his wife and children. This, the much-quoted opening of Janet Malcolm’s best-known book, was the arresting curtain-raiser to a provocative account of the ethical issues she identified from the celebrated MacDonald-McGinniss case in the United States. ![]() “He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.” ![]() ![]() “Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible,” she declared in The Journalist and the Murderer (1990). Janet Malcolm, the American writer, who has died aged 86, created a literary stir when she laid bare what she considered to be the dishonest Faustian pact between biographers and their subjects. ![]() ![]() In the end, this was a pleasant book, although not one of my favourites. She crossed the line between sassy and bitchy, at least in my opinion. Obviously, she becomes nicer as the story goes, but at first, I couldn't stand it. Nick was all but nice to her sometimes, but she would get all her claws out and act as though he had just told her that he wanted her dead. As someone who's very nice and sweet, I do like to read about sassy characters who say everything they want, but when characters just say mean things for fun, it's just something I can't understand or appreciate. The thing I disliked about this book was probably Holly's character, because she was just horrible sometimes. ![]() ![]() The rumors created by her relationship with Nick were as impossible as the ones I read sometimes, so it was nice to have an insight on the celebrity life for once. Her ability to act whenever she had to made me laugh and surprised me a lot, because she's suprisingly good. It shows a realistic side of celebrity and I thought seeing Holly pushed into this was really interesting. ![]() I liked the plot of this story, even though it's not exactly an original one. It takes place on a cruise during winter break and it has a very charming rock star, which makes it the perfect cutesy novel. It's such an amazing book to read around Christmas (or anytime, when you're like me). ![]() This kept me up much later than I should've, but it was pretty awesome. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: He needs her more than he wants she wants him more than she should and the fate of both the mortal and immortal worlds depends on not just repairing their hearts, but finding a Love that’s True… FALLEN IMMORTALS: A modern Beauty and the Beast story with flaming HOT dragon shifters, vengeful Dark Fae, and beguiling fallen angels. And I know one thing deep in my bones: all men lie. From the world building and descriptive character. This guy is unlucky in love? Something’s not right. Kiss of a Dragon is book 1 of Alisa Woods, Fallen Immortals series and an excellent start to the series. He’s rich, powerful, and the heat off his smoking-hot body is melting my panties. Now he’s kidnapped me, taken me to his lair, and given me an absurdly simple task-find him a mate. ARABELLA: I was saved from death in a dark Seattle alley by an impossibly beautiful man swooping in on golden wings. It falls to me, the eldest by a hair’s breadth, and yet, I cannot face the horror of another sealing. ![]() Yet a ten-thousand-year treaty will die with me, if I don’t spawn a dragonling to take my place. Five hundred years is truly enough for a man like me. Kiss of a Dragon (Fallen Immortals 1): Free Dragon Shifter Paranormal Romance, Fairytale Romance - Ebook written by Alisa Woods. ![]() LUCIAN: I am a Dragon Prince of the House of Smoke… and I am dying. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a lively, intimate study of a very public man and the inner forces that compelled him to move beyond the world of most former slaves. ![]() Frederick Douglass attempts to capture the essence of a man who was as complex as the period in which he lived. ![]() Remarkably, Professor McFeely's book proves otherwise. One might suspect that little more that is substantive could be uncovered about a man who has been so thoroughly studied. One of the most comprehensive-authored by Benjamin Quarles-appeared over forty years ago but continues to be recognized for its sound scholarship. Several biographies of Douglass have been written over the years. And he skillfully used those relationships to further his own definition of liberty, not simply for those of African descent (with whom he was primarily concerned), but for all. More than any other black man of his era he was able to gain the respect of men and women of prominence and influence. $24.95.) For over fifty years Frederick Douglass captured the attention of the nation with his charm and an uncompromising commitment to freedom and equality. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:īOOK REVIEWS Frederick Douglass. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even before the three men enter the exclusively female society, they are identified by their varied, yet masculine, traits. The focus of Herland is split between the main characters, Van, Jeff and Terry, and the society they are exploring. The three performances of masculinity described and explained in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland remain relevant today, and illuminate an idealistic approach to binary coexistance. The text, and century since its writing, show that time has not distorted expected performances of manliness. The setting is fantastical and imagined, but the portrayal of males is still relevant. The main themes are not dependent on fleeting technologies. Herland Explorer “Manly” And Making Progressĭespite the fact that Herland was invented and described nearly a century ago, the ideas are not yet obsolete. ![]() ![]() ![]() The show ran from 1983 to 1996 but you'd hardly know it today. ![]() Mousercise also spawned hit soundtracks (which are streaming) and a popular standalone VHS release, which was drenched in leg warmers, overly shampooed hair, short shorts, Mickey attempting to stretch, and a high-energy finale that would make Italo Disco proud. Disney characters like Mickey and Goofy joined a child cast during their workouts, and in between exercising, the show featured short sketches with the characters. In 1983, Disney launched The Disney Channel, and it tapped dancer Kellyn Plasschaert to lead an early morning, Jane Fonda-esque workout show for kids titled Mousercise. Mickey Mouse? Doing calisthenics? The breakout success of home workout videos in the early '80-the most apparent being Jane Fonda's Workout in 1982-inspired Disney to take the trend into its own mouse mittens. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In his previous novels about gifted people, the abilities were apparently latent, things the characters were born with. But when it came to writing pyrokinetic little Charlie McGee, King added the ingredient of deep, paranoid terror that comes from knowing that the very people you were taught would help you if you ever get into trouble, the people in charge of not just your house, but of everything, can't be trusted. Carrie White and Danny Torrance had to face bullies and dangerous parents, and those are scary enough. He's also always had a sweet spot for kids in peril, from Danny Torrance to Jack Sawyer in The Talisman to poor little Tad Trenton in Cujo.įirestarter, King's 1980 science fiction/horror novel, blends each of these thematic ingredients with one of his other hallmarks, something that crept into things like The Stand and eventually took prominence in The Dead Zone: A distrust of governmental authority figures. Of the first 10 novels the legendary author published after his 1974 debut, four of them feature a protagonist with some kind of mental superpower, whether it's telekinesis in Carrie, the ability to see ghosts in The Shining, or clairvoyance in The Dead Zone. ![]() Stephen King has always been fascinated by people with strange and often dangerous mental gifts. ![]() ![]() ![]() "This will not block any of the pavements and pedestrians will be able to pass safely. Various locations will be used on Higher and Lower market street making use of the wide pavements for filming. The full letter says: "The filming at the Square will represent a townhouse setting and scenes will include arrivals and departures of our characters by car and on a motorbike, as well as seeing 'passers by' on foot. Read more: Gordon Ramsay and Tana Ramsay's life in Cornwall It adds that Cornwall Council is aware of the production and the road will not be closed during this time, although the crew will be using traffic control boards after 7pm to assist with filming some of the scenes. The letter says that the crews will be shooting scenes for a new movie, titled Love & Therapy, across various locations on the higher and lower market street in Penryn, between the hours of 9am to 10pm today and tomorrow. ![]() |